{"id":841,"date":"2018-06-14T08:32:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T13:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattspeaking.com\/home\/?p=841"},"modified":"2018-06-14T08:32:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T13:32:41","slug":"june-14-2018-at-0931am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattspeaking.com\/home\/2018\/06\/14\/june-14-2018-at-0931am\/","title":{"rendered":"June 14, 2018 at 09:31AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 14, 1777, Congress settled on a design for the flag, which is why today is considered #FlagDay. Today we celebrate, \u201cthe flag of the United States of America, and &#8230;the republic for which it stands.\u201d Yeah, we\u2019ve been through a lot in the last 241 years, and sometimes it seems like it\u2019s just getting worse, that we\u2019ve lost sight of what the Great American Experiment is all about. So let\u2019s take today and find some common ground with other Americans. Forget for today whether or not someone else\u2019s #politics agree with yours, and recognize that, to quote that famous philosopher, \u201cwe\u2019re not Spartans, we\u2019re not Watusi. We\u2019re #Americans, with a capital A.\u201d We\u2019re all under one flag. #unitedwestand #dividedwefall #USA #alittlebettereveryday #adventurevo<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BkAcCEpjz5y\/embed\" width=\"612\" height=\"710\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 14, 1777, Congress settled on a design for the flag, which is why today is considered #FlagDay. Today we celebrate, \u201cthe flag of the United States of America, and &#8230;the republic for which it stands.\u201d Yeah, we\u2019ve been through a lot in the last 241 years, and sometimes it seems like it\u2019s just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattspeaking.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattspeaking.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattspeaking.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattspeaking.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattspeaking.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattspeaking.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattspeaking.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattspeaking.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattspeaking.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattspeaking.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}